Product Design Guild, London

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Product Design Guild is a not-for profit organization, brought over from San Francisco. It relies on the London tech start-up scene for support. Events are in the format of talks and studio time, with the occasional late night after-party! We aim to improve our craft, in a friendly, intelligent and collaborative environment.

What Our Friends Are Saying About Us

“Your environment is the most important contributor to improving your design skills. Being around others, seeing their reactions, and hearing their thinking will bring you to the next level as a designer.”

“I've come to the opinion that the development of design is now a major discipline shortage and supporting an effort to grow this skill amongst designers is a major thing we can do to help the industry.”

“It's challenging to find high quality designers despite it being an essential piece of what ultimately drives success. I hope that the Product Design Guild will be an environment that both fosters continued growth for many designers and allows us to identify rising stars in the field.”

About the Product Design Guild

We hold events where designers bring in the work they're doing in their everyday jobs and help each other out.

It is a place where you can brainstorm ideas, receive informed critique, learn new techniques and all the other activities that are only possible in a group environment.

Rules

To make the Design Guild a supportive place for everyone, we have a couple of rules:

You need to bring work

Be intensely helpful

People are trusting you, don't be a dick

Confidentiality

Many designers work on sensitive work, we respect that. At the same time, it's important to us that every designer is bringing real work. Here's some ideas that have worked for our members in the past:

Pick a less sensitive part of the work. Even the most secret product still have mundane areas that need to be designed.

Pick a speculative feature that hasn't made it into the product yet. Every site needs an iPad version now right? Is yours designed yet? Now would be a good chance to get started

Donate some design to your favorite open source project. There are many open source projects that do good work but could be better designed

Bring in a side-project. We like all the crazy stuff you do on the side as well